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Number to Know

22: In August 2012, Michael Phelps broke the 1964 record for the greatest number of medals won at the Olympics. The American swimmer has won 22.

This Day in History

July 31, 1790: The first U.S. patent is issued to inventor Samuel Hopkins for a potash process.